Discussion
In the field of comparative public administration who amongst the following have conducted empirical studies of bureaucratic behaviour in different social and cultural perspectives :
Answer: A
The answer is Robert Presthus and Michael Crozier.
Robert Presthus studied bureaucratic behaviour across cultures, notably in Turkey, and wrote on how organisational behaviour differs with the social setting (Behavior and Bureaucracy in Many Cultures, 1959). Michel Crozier's The Bureaucratic Phenomenon (1964) was an empirical study of French administrative agencies that tied bureaucratic behaviour to French culture. Both are standard examples of empirical, cross-cultural research on bureaucracy.
Pfiffner and Presthus are known together as authors of a general textbook of public administration. Peter Blau studied bureaucracy in American agencies, and Warren Bennis wrote on organisational change. Miller and Rice wrote on organisations as systems from the Tavistock tradition. None of these pairs is the cross-cultural pair the question wants.
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